technofossil
06-29-2007, 03:04 PM
I have just updated to Ubuntu Feisty from the prior version.
When I try to open /media/disk (in the file browser) I get a message: "Access to this internal disk it is restricted to system administrators for security reasons." It then requires root password.
My system has 2 internal drives:
1 IDE hda1 - /
1 SATA sda1 - /media/disk
Owner = root, Group = root
all accesses are: list, create/delete/, no access.
This is the data disk for my system. When I view the disk contents, none of the files or directories have the correct icons (all show as documents). I cannot open anything, including .gz, .tar, .ods, .pdf, or folders.
If I open a terminal and sudo, I can copy files to / and then change the permissions. The files are normal and are readable and writable. When I cp back I still cannot open the files.
The drive is not in fstab. Once opened, the properties window lists the mount options as: rw nosuid nodev data=ordered
I created an entry in fstab and the result was the same, the fstab entry was ignored.
What do I do next.
Someone suggested sudo chown /media/disk $USER:$USER -R
I also tried to chmod -v 666 *.ods (some of the docs on the disk). I saw the changes made but I am still not able to access the files. When I reboot the system, the old properties return.
ls -l yields:
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? /media/disk/Auto_Expenses1.ods
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? /media/disk/Auto Expenses.ods
I deleted the partition using GParted and re-installed the partition and formatted the disk. When I tried to create the new partition, I got the message "Access to this internal disk it is restricted to system administrators for security reasons." It looks like the issue is being create in the lower levels of the OS.
Something is very screwy on this disk. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance for all help.
__________________
If knowledge can create problems,
it is not through ignorance that we
can solve them. -- Isaac Asimov
When I try to open /media/disk (in the file browser) I get a message: "Access to this internal disk it is restricted to system administrators for security reasons." It then requires root password.
My system has 2 internal drives:
1 IDE hda1 - /
1 SATA sda1 - /media/disk
Owner = root, Group = root
all accesses are: list, create/delete/, no access.
This is the data disk for my system. When I view the disk contents, none of the files or directories have the correct icons (all show as documents). I cannot open anything, including .gz, .tar, .ods, .pdf, or folders.
If I open a terminal and sudo, I can copy files to / and then change the permissions. The files are normal and are readable and writable. When I cp back I still cannot open the files.
The drive is not in fstab. Once opened, the properties window lists the mount options as: rw nosuid nodev data=ordered
I created an entry in fstab and the result was the same, the fstab entry was ignored.
What do I do next.
Someone suggested sudo chown /media/disk $USER:$USER -R
I also tried to chmod -v 666 *.ods (some of the docs on the disk). I saw the changes made but I am still not able to access the files. When I reboot the system, the old properties return.
ls -l yields:
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? /media/disk/Auto_Expenses1.ods
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? /media/disk/Auto Expenses.ods
I deleted the partition using GParted and re-installed the partition and formatted the disk. When I tried to create the new partition, I got the message "Access to this internal disk it is restricted to system administrators for security reasons." It looks like the issue is being create in the lower levels of the OS.
Something is very screwy on this disk. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance for all help.
__________________
If knowledge can create problems,
it is not through ignorance that we
can solve them. -- Isaac Asimov